Twitea.me Case studyWhat is Twitea.me?

Twitea.me is a service which enables people who do not have a permanent mobile internet connection in their phone or laptop to be in contact with their social networks - Twitter and Facebook - through SMS messages. Twitea.me can be used by anyone with a Twitter or Facebook account in any of the countries in which BlueVia is present. This application has been developed by Arturo Garrido de la Rosa, a Mexican developer who has used the BlueVia SMS API to design Twitea.me. His inspiration came from his hands-on experience of the Mexican market where the penetration of smartphones is not as high as Europe or the USA.

Arturo, who is 35 and a Cybernetics and Computer Systems Engineer, has always been fascinated by the development of mobile applications. He started to work with the Movistar Developers Platform APIs in 2009, and made the natural progression to the new BlueVia platform at the end of 2010.

“When I discovered the Movistar Developers Platform I started to try out their APIs, as I was really interested in the possibility of connecting directly with the Telefónica network. When I heard about BlueVia it was just perfect because now I had the possibility to continue doing exactly what I had been doing locally in Mexico with MDP but on a global scale and with the added benefit of the business models offered by BlueVia.”

The impact that social networking has had on society is huge. Keeping in touch with friends, family and colleagues has been made infinitely easier by the launch of services such as Twitter and Facebook. However, there are millions of people who desire the convenience of connecting to their accounts while on the move but do not own a smartphone or permanent mobile internet connection. Twitea.me fills this gap, enabling people to be connected on the move with their social networks because it works with any cellular device, the user only has to register on the Twitea.me site and configure the social networks they want to use through SMS.

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By using the BlueVia SMS API, Twitea.me generates revenues from every message sent and received across the API.

“The impact of this is huge, as using BlueVia means that I now have access to brand new revenue streams” says Arturo. Beyond traditional business models, BlueVia gives the opportunity to the developer to get recurring revenues by sharing messaging traffic.

“Everything is made very transparent and clear for the developer.”From start to finish the service has been created in less than 3 months.

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